The site also highlights static student amenities, such as building locations, blue emergency phones, bike racks, landscape data, handicapped parking and city bus routes.
For OSU employees with a user ID, the site provides further GIS information, including utility line locations, road pavement conditions, building assessment data and building floor plans with associated space data.
Woolpert was hired to integrate the university’s myriad systems and existing tools and data, and make them obtainable by public and private users in both website and web application formats, officials said. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Ohio State has more than 1,300 buildings across its six campuses, and had a total enrollment of nearly 65,000 students in fall 2014.
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